Upgrading my graphics card.

[DennisBloodnock]

Hi all not really sure if this is the right forum to be posting this if no could you point me in the right direction.

I am looking to upgrade my graphics card on a budget to something that can support Dx11 to run Space engineers. Any suggestion?

Here are my specs.

Operating System

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz

Bloomfield 45nm Technology

RAM

4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (8-8-8-19)

Motherboard

Acer FX58M (CPU 1)

Graphics

32FHD_LCD_TV (1920x1080@60Hz)

1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner)

Storage

596GB Western Digital WDC WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 (SATA )

Optical Drives

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH40F

[Ruse]

Building a whole new PC would be better.

[_I_]

those cpus are capable when oc'd to around 4ghz
but in the oem board its not possible (and its 4g of 1066 ram is shooting itself in the foot, along with the hdd)

save up $600+ for a new build

on the cheap, find a used office tower pc with a 4xxx or later i5/i7 with 16g of ram (usually around $100)
then upgrade the gpu and psu ($300 for 1660 and quality 550w psu)

will be good enough for most games at mid+ 1080p60 for around the $400 mark

[Sierra Oscar]

What sort of a budget do you have? Would you be interested in a larger upgrade?

[Magma Dragoon]

Does your power supply have cables with 6 and 6+2 pin connectors? If not you'll be limited to low power low performance units.

4GB of RAM, ATI, Nehalem... That thing is a relic from a bygone age. If you have the money replacing the whole thing would be a good idea, Amazon Christmas sales on Ryzen parts are still going on.

[_I_]

many of those oem boards will not take a modern gpu
they have the pci-e x16 slot, but bios will not recognize the 9xx or later gpu

[DennisBloodnock]

Originally posted by _I_:

those cpus are capable when oc'd to around 4ghz
but in the oem board its not possible (and its 4g of 1066 ram is shooting itself in the foot, along with the hdd)

save up $600+ for a new build

on the cheap, find a used office tower pc with a 4xxx or later i5/i7 with 16g of ram (usually around $100)
then upgrade the gpu and psu ($300 for 1660 and quality 550w psu)

will be good enough for most games at mid+ 1080p60 for around the $400 mark

I have bought extra ram if that would help the situation at all. would ake my ram up o 12gb

[Lord Flashheart]

A new PC seems a better idea. Try to use the windows licence you have for windows 10 home premium to hopefully save some cash on that. The price/performance of R5 3600 based ryzen seems optimum right now. Also the B550 motherboards are out soon so may be an option.

Also support for windows 7 is running out very very soon.

[upcoast]

To put it in context a gtx750ti is on par with an HD6970 and both are better than the old HD4870 so a budget end used Rx580 $100 or GTX1650super are both light years ahead of what you have now.

Ps, move to win 10, you just use your win 7 key for win 10.

Pss,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGwPEq7JXdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqUGuhML634

You might want to flip through ^ that.